Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:25:42 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: gnuplot 3.5 ported to DJGPP and Allegro
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At 05:37  10/19/1997 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> I suppose I can mail my patch if anybody's
>> interested (about 25K). I may send it to the gnuplot people sometime but I
>> had to make some fairly ugly changes (there were some identifier conflicts
>> with Allegro).
>
>Please consider packaging it like all DJGPP ports of GNU software and 
>asking DJ Delorie to make it available from SimTel.NET mirrors.
Actually, there may be some legal issues. gnuplot, despite its name, is not
GNU. There was an unfortunate coincidence in the naming. This is their
copyright notice:

   Permission to use, copy, and distribute this software and its
   documentation for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted,
   provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
   that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear
   in supporting documentation.

   Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to
   distribute the modified code.  Modifications are to be distributed
   as patches to released version.

So I don't think I'd be allowed to package my modified version and put it on
Simtelnet. Also, considering I only did the port yesterday and only two
people have tried it, I don't really know if it's all that stable yet. It
looks like all I can do is send it to the gnuplot folks and see what they
think. And I'm not sure how happy they'll be about having their variables
renamed, which I had to do to coexist with Allegro. But it would sure be
nice if anyone wanted to test it! I can email my patch, about 25K.




Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net